The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-06
AT LAST RELIEF COMES.
Tho Signal Service Announces that q Cold
Wave Is Moving Toward Indianapolis.

The local showers in this vicinity Thursday
were succeeded that night By clear sky with
not a vestige of cloud to indicate the presence
of rain anywhere. The atmosphere became al
most sitting toward midnight; but there was
some breeze to give momentary relief. No one
would have counted strongly on rain yesterday.
The conditions all tended to a continuance Of
the hot period. though az on the day before the
heavy cumulous clouds began to pile up in the
west and in the southwest, as if to keep expecta-
tons alive. In the morning the effects of the
heat were severe as when the Thermometer
remained at a hundred or more. It was sweltering
weather, but the people got now and then a lit
tie protection from tho suns rays by the clouds
intervening. News from the country, such as
that from Broad Ripple. Brightwood, and other
places, telling of cooling rains the afternoon be-
fore made the weather situation in the city
somewhat provoking, not drop fell here,
yet there fulhllment of hope in the dis
tant west that rain that would cause a marked
change would soon be here Night before last
these local showers seemed to be general in
that direction, particularly in Kansas, and up
the Missouri valley. Concordia and Leaven-
worth. Kan, each got a fall of 60, Omaha had
only six-hundredths less. DesMones was helped
by 48, Deadwood by SO. while Cincinnati, only
a few miles more than hundred from Indian
apolis, had fall of .92. Other places in the
from a couple of hundredths to .45 and so.
The most noticeable feature in the West and
Northwest yesterday was the state of the Their
mometer. It had until then been holding tena-
ciously to the nineties. Yesterday it marked
only the forties, with downward movement of
the cool wave in this direction. It about
noon, shortly after, that the rain center
formed few miles east of Indianapolis. It's eff
feet early became apparent though the heat was
intense until o'clock. when the western horizon
began be lined with dark-blue clouds. The
wind stiffened and the mercury began to move
downward few minutes before this hour it
had reached its highest point for the
day, 976o, one degree and fve-tenths
lower than at the hour the proceed
ing day. ATT o'clock it stood at 942o, and
forty five minutes later it had dropped to S2o.
The rain conditions at this time were very
strong, while the wind caused trouble to pedes-
trians. ratified signs and windows and sent the
dust in binding clouds through the streets. For
several minutes twas hard for one to measure
his steps. Shortly after this drizzing rain
fell for threequarters Of hour. It came
down sparingly, but it was time when the
smallest favors of that kind were very accepta-
Bile. The dust laid; that some thing
and the air had freshness that made feel
if the greatest blessing had come to him. By
o'clock the thermometer marked 76o. with
the promise of moro rain and succession of
mornings heat was the prostraton OF Miss
Iowa Pfaff. employed at Cones overall factory.
Her condition Is not serious.
The afternoon bulletins at the signal office
indicated that the excessively hot period was at
an end the temperature in Iowa. Nebraska
and northern Kansas was TO- about the hour
the highest point of tho day was OBJ
served The remnants of the hot wave that had
kept the thermometer in the nineties have been
driven south to Arkansas.